Tarot Beach Party

[lady_moon]

There are those of the tarot who know how to set up for a party.

Ruin had spent most of the afternoon building the bonfire. He has carefully made it much in the way he would have with the villagers of his mortal life when they would celebrate the harvests. Charity, Unity, and Skill had spent most of the day setting up food, both their sorts of foods and the sorts the sentients would be expecting.

Moon watched it all with rapt fascination, her eyes on the marshmallows Skill told her firmly she isn't allowed to touch yet. But they're white and fluffy looking and Moon is curious. Mons barks at her, warning Skill, and Moon is shooed off.

It's Fortune who puts out blankets, spread all over the beach area for everyone to use. Moon watches her family set up for a party, for guests... real guests who are coming simply to come instead of for answers. She watches Fortune set down a large stack of very warm looking towels, and she grins.

Swimming. Damian will like the swimming.

Her wolves run up and down the beach in excitement, and Moon knows it's time.

Disappearing back to Milliways, she sets it up so people can come and go as they need to, pleased with herself and her family.

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Re: Food and Drink

[ten_of_swords]

"Something to do with Ramon, I'm sure," he says, a dark edge to his words. "I don't tend to ask her. She's the Queen of Swords, so she sort of out-ranks me if she wants to."

Ruin snorts.

"Oh, Jason, I'm sure you could find something to complain about."

Re: Food and Drink

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason snarls quietly. "Ramon's a fucking tool."

And that's all he has to say about Ramon.

He rolls his eyes up to Ruin. "You flatter me. This is a party and I'm having a great time, so...fuck off," he says good-naturedly. It should be noted that he's actually enjoying this banter with Ruin.

Re: Food and Drink

[ten_of_swords]

Ruin bursts out laughing, and he picks a beer out of one of the tubs of ice and tosses it to Jason.

"It is a party, and it's made Moon happy, so I have no intention of fucking it up for her."

Moon had been looking forward to inviting her friends home. Ruin's not about to hurt his sister by picking a fight with the new boyfriend.

Re: Food and Drink

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason catches it with a nod of thanks and takes a long swallow. "It's good to see her so happy. She gets all bubbly and girly on us when she's happy."

Sucker. He's gone and doesn't even know it.

Re: Food and Drink

[ten_of_swords]

However, Ruin does, but he also respects the way things work, and this not his area to press.

He looks to where Moon is laughing and running about with the wolves.

"She's alive finally," he murmurs with a smile.

Re: Food and Drink

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason follows Ruin's gaze to where Moon is playing, a distant smile on his own lips.

"She didn't seem half as energetic when I first met her. Now...yeah, she feels very alive. I like it."

Re: Food and Drink

[ten_of_swords]

"Well, that was our doing," Ruin says, finishing his beer. "We thought we were doing her a favor by repressing a lot of things inside her. It seems we weren't."

Ruin glances at Jason.

"But it's really you that makes her laugh. Something about you, the others, that keeps her more... together... than she used to be."

Re: Food and Drink

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason can't help but smile at that, his eyes dropping to the ground. "Yeah...it's that part of her that calls to us. When we actually answer her back, everything feels...right."

Speaking for the lycanthropes. As for himself...

"But I love seeing her happy. Something about her laughing and happy just..."

He smiles and shrugs, trailing off. There might be words there, but he can't find the perfect ones.

Re: Food and Drink

[ten_of_swords]

Ruin picks out another beer for himself, chuckling.

"Just makes your world seem perfectly right," he finishes for Jason.

He knows the feeling. He feels it whenever Mary Anne smiles and laughs, whenever she looks at him like the world is composed of just them.

"I have to do the brotherly thing," he says conversationally as he takes a sip of beer, watching Moon tease Rigel. "If you ever make her cry like you did before, if you ever hurt her like that again, I'll kill you, and I won't have any problem with it."

Ruin smiles at Jason.

"You make her happy; I like her happy. Despite what I represent, there's more than just the card, and what is beneath the card rather likes the people around him happy -- even you, puppy."

Re: Food and Drink

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He smiles, but doesn't comment as Ruin finishes his sentence. He doesn't want to give Ruin the satisfaction of hearing him admit that he's exactly right.

Jason can actually respect that warning, though: if his sister wasn't such a bitch, he'd offer the same threat to the men she'd dated. And if he ever hurt Moon like that again, he'd likely welcome the punishment.

He tips back his beer with a slow grin. "Jesus, Ruin, you'd better watch it or you might make me actually start liking you."

Re: Food and Drink

[ten_of_swords]

"God forbid, huh?"

Ruin shakes his head, smirking.